109 Greensburo Sit ins
Alex
Matuesz
Nathan
Tristan
On Feb. 1, 1960, four African-American students from historically black college Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolinasat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their names are
This lunch counter had stools for whites, while blacks had to stand and eat. The four students sat down anyway, doing a plan they’d been plannig for a month.
Thinking the sit-in would be a one-day wonder, the manager didn’t call the police. But the sit-ins grew—first dozens, then hundreds, joined the original four in the protest.
A week after the Greensboro sit-in, students in other North Carolina towns did similar sit-ins. These demonstrations spread to towns near Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, and Charlotte. The movement soon spread to other cities all across the South.
Alex
Matuesz
Nathan
Tristan
On Feb. 1, 1960, four African-American students from historically black college Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolinasat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their names are
David Leinail RichmondJoseph Alfred McNeilFranklin Eugene McCain
Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair Jr.)
This lunch counter had stools for whites, while blacks had to stand and eat. The four students sat down anyway, doing a plan they’d been plannig for a month.
Thinking the sit-in would be a one-day wonder, the manager didn’t call the police. But the sit-ins grew—first dozens, then hundreds, joined the original four in the protest.
A week after the Greensboro sit-in, students in other North Carolina towns did similar sit-ins. These demonstrations spread to towns near Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, and Charlotte. The movement soon spread to other cities all across the South.